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"High-Handed Rebellion."

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
June
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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The State Journal calis the hukiing o meetings on the first day of the week b Gerrit Sniith nn "exhibition of high-lian ded rebol] ion against the Inws of God.' Will the Journal please state wiatlaw o God Mr. Smith has violated by instruct ing tlie people from the Bible on the Sab bath, and Iioic he has violated it? Sensi ble people roquire something more thai mere íissertion nnddeclamntion. And now we are upon this subject, we will recommend tó the attention of the Journal the following in.stance of ::high handod rebèllion" whicli wc ent from the New Lisbon Aurora, Ohio. Wc would quote the account from the Evangelist, hut we cannot now lay our hand upon it. i The N. York Evangelist, a Jeading Presbyterian paper, in referring to the doingsofCongress somewhere about 1830, states that "On Saturday evening, Mr. Poindexter moved that when the senate adjourncd,it adjourn to meet at 10 o'clock lo marróte, (SUNDAY.") The account further says that liMv. Frclinghuysen spoke against it with great .earnestness;" ai)d-vhenthe motion was put to vote parties stood for violating the Sabbath 12, among whom wero CLAY, Tyler, Waggaman, &c, and against it Benton, Ewing, Frelinghuvsen. Webster, and others, to the numberof 22. Clay aruedstron-ly that legislation liko matheinatics, was good enough to be done on Sunday. Do ';orthodox" professors think so? But in 1833 he carried into practice this doctrine, as the following extract from a speech of his on Feb. '25 will show:"It was in thÍ3 very chnmber, senator Holmes of Maine, presiüing ia a committee of the senafe. and I ín a commitlee of twenty-four of the House of representativos, on a SA13CATH DAY, that the ter ma w'ere adj usted bv vhickthe Missouri compromis e was ëffecïëa." Now, neighbor, what do vou answer? Will you deny the authority of th e Evangelist? Or wil] you excuse Mr. CJaybecause itis a t:Arirginia custom" io legislate on the first day of the week as well as to fígfit duels? Th is Legislation on Sunday, and the avowcd advocacy of it by Mr. Clay- was it, or was it nof, a "high handed rebullion agaiu.st the laws of God." Il' you say no. how ihen can you declaim so violently against Mr. Smith? If you say yes, yóu avow yoursdf an advocate of lid high handed JRciel against the lau-s of God'1'' for the Presidency! What do you say?

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Signal of Liberty